This sauce has a sharp tang from the vinegar but I found that it didn’t put me off too much. I used 50ml of vinegar, which I have reduced to 30ml in the recipe below. The original recipe I found had rose petal vinegar that is probably lighter, but white wine vinegar is what I [...]
Tags:Cookery·Paleo diet
I finally decided to give into inevitability, after fighting against the 78kg squat with no progression for a week. The point of Hepburn is that you should always feel that you are not at your complete limit of lifting ability. The progress is slow and steady and you should never stall. So the fact that [...]
Tags:Powerlifting·Training
Last week I looked at a study about sedentary women doing strength training. This week I thought it might be interesting to look at a recent study that considered how well overweight and obese premenopausal women adhere to a two-year twice-weekly weight training intervention. After all, if we’re all going to get out there to [...]
Tags:Motivation·Training·Women
This is an incredibly simple vegetable replacement to pasta that is particularly helpful when you are eating something with a lot of sauce – in particular a creamy sauce. Most people who follow a Paleo diet will have already come across these, but I wanted to include them here for the sake of completeness. My [...]
Tags:Cookery·Paleo diet
I woke on Monday morning, when I should have been doing my first workout of the week, with terrible backache. I put it down to having taught violin and piano all day on Sunday. When I was first rolling in the morning I thought the problem was in my rhomboids, but I couldn’t find any [...]
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There’s lots of pork cooking going on at the moment because pork is surprisingly cheap in the supermarket. Hopefully everyone who reads this blog also enjoys pork! This is a recipe that I tried for myself and was so pleased with it that I cooked it up again a week later for Chris’s birthday dinner. [...]
Tags:Cookery·Meat·Paleo diet
A bit later than my usual posting time, but I was out most of the day so I’ve only just finished this! This was a useful study I stumbled across. I was actually looking for another bench press study, but when I saw this study my interest was piqued. Was this a study I could [...]
Tags:Arm strength·Training·Women
This was another recipe put together with the ingredients in my store cupboard. I tried it a couple of times changing the ingredients a little each time – the variant below is the best combination of flavours I found. The flavours are quite delicate and this needs serving up with delicate flavoured vegetables, such as [...]
Tags:Cookery·Meat·Paleo diet
2012 has not started in a promising style. Being ill at the end of 2011 followed by a six day haul through mud and bogs had hit my numbers hard. Week two saw some improvement on week one but progress is definitely slow. The interesting bit is that I am not feeling the difficulty in [...]
Tags:Powerlifting·Training
Throwing myself in at the deep end with my research plans for this year, I thought I would start with a bit of technical reading about the bench press. On my hunt for material I found a research paper in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition that seemed highly appropriate. In the [...]
